Re: Apple II humor!

[gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <49ngv8$qeq@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
>: 2.  Do people wonder why you keep using "Applesoft" as a synonym for 
>:     BASIC?
>Yes.

	Not really...nobody's ever really asked me.  But in those
student-information forms we get on the first day of classes for
known programming languages, among the others I check off "other"
and write in Applesoft.  Similiar for ProDOS, and...


>: 5.  Do you still have floppies that have write-protect holes on both 
>:     sides, but are labeled "single sided"?
>Bunches of 'em

>: 7.  Do you have "Beneath Apple DOS"?
>I wish!  Anybody know where I can find a copy?

	you can find one in my desk drawer but it's not for sale. =^)
I wonder what was going through the Computerland salesman when he
sold us (my mom and I) that and "Assembly Lines: the Book"  (me being
in the sixth grade at the time.)  ...and to think I came this |__|
close to also owning "Bag of Tricks", but we decided to "maybe get
it later" =^(
	Never really did understand those books fully, I don't think
I read past the 3rd chapter of BAD.  I recall something about 6+2
or 5+2, but got no idea what it's about.  But it did teach me quite
a bit about disk layout, VTOC, track-sector lists, etc... and helped
me repair a game whose catalog I accidentally trashed. =^)


>: 10. Do you have "alias CATALOG ls" in you .login?
>I didn't until I read this...but I do now 8-)

	ditto.   However I already do have my unix prompt set to
the Applesoft ']'. =^)

>: donald@Nerdshack.com
>: Apple II user since 1983
>HAH!  I first started on the Apple ][ in 1981, shortly after a bout with a
>TRS-80 Model I/Level II/16k machine...

	I think I date back to around 1983/1984, started on the //e
with those keys with the big friendly white letterings.  Had the
weirdest feeling when we got ours and it had the black letters.
(also got a similar feeling when the logo-stickers began using the
serif-font as opposed to the old "apple" font)
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